The Empire State Plaza ice rink’s opening was pushed from last Friday to this Saturday, but officials even then noted that the new date was as weather-dependent as the initial one.

Thursday’s wet, clammy conditions — better suited for London that Albany — isn’t helping matters, as depicted in the photo at right that was zapped to us by a reader. OGS spokeswoman Heather Groll said the agency’s workers have done a yeoman job of removing excess water and repainting in-ice logos that had turned to mush.

Groll said OGS would have a better handle on whether it could stick with a Saturday opening — the day before the scheduled lighting of the plaza’s holiday tree — on Friday.

“We’re hoping,” she said. ” … This is an outdoor rink; these are the situations that everybody faces with an outdoor rink. But our people are amazing.”

They might have to be amazing tomorrow, too: More warm, wet weather is predicted for Friday; Saturday’s temperatures are expected to resemble something more like December in the northeast.

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